SteveT

Another carefully controlled, and measured performance by our lads, they are keeping the best till last, obviously. Is Heskey a little overweight and slightly slower than one might expect, for one of the very best eleven players we have? We shall have to put it down to er altitude!

I do not think the duchessofdulwich comment was particularly flippant. The two main reasons for someone lying in the road is an accident, or someone having a seizure, I fail to see any trivialising about the accident and feel sympathetic to either. Village people I think you are being rather harsh as no one has made anything like a flippant comment, and I do hope the lad's wounds heals up very soon.

The stick that I got for taking the labels, a really weird reaction so never again.

The ring necked parakeets are a pest which are not going to go away anytime soon, they attack the indigenous bird population are fast flyers and have hideously screeching calls. They have become quite prolific breeders and have colonised much of this island in only a few years. The fines for introducing pests of any variety of creature, are far too lenient in my opinion. Birmingham town centre has masses of starlings which are a pest, but these parakeets could take over many towns in the future.

I always rated you as a good poster Domitianus, but today you earned your promotion to 'great' poster.

or get yourself put down by a kindly vet.

A passing hottentot sees the igloo and smiles in anticipation, then rejects it on the grounds that it's too remote.

For a mulch covering are lawn clippings from the mower bag suitable?

jrussell I feel as if I've had a run in with a pitbull. I was not advocating a return to that era, just commenting on how things were.

I wonder if your chosen one reads the postings left by her beloved, my bet is that she does, if she is like the women I have known she rifles through your pockets too before she washes or takes them to the cleaners. Disclaimers count for nought, whatever you write will be used to load up her blunderbuss which she will point at you during the very next argument and put you in your place, but if she doesn't, you have yourself a rare spouse indeed.

Or did you accidentally trip and spill the contents of an open container of Tumbleweed across the er delicate wildflower meadow? I guess I'm gonna have to reappraise some of your posts Ladym when unintentional wildflower meadows spring so readily to your lips. I reckon you could sell igloos to Hottentots:)) One guy I know of was such a good salesman he could sell sh!t, so thats what he did, he created the burger king chain.

When I was in my childhood (1950s) guys would give up their seats to females, they would not have to be pregnant or with a gaggle of kids, it was good manners as females were considered to be frailer than men. On double deckers men usually travelled upstairs so they could smoke, and there was no standing up there of course. I remember one guy who was being harrangued by a sizeable woman on a full bus, and she said loudly 'well, aren't you going to give up your seat' He replied "you drink, you smoke, and you wear trousers, and I've had a hard day, so I'm not moving". That was rather forthright answering back to a female, and some passengers quietly smirked to themselves, my mother certainly did.

Ladymuck does that mean you have bought some 'Weedol' and splashed it around a bit?:))

I shall plant two cuttings today guys, feel free to contact me in a couple or three weeks when they should have rooted.

The day bit of the wedding was for family with children, and the evening was for friends ravers and snorters of substances. ?50 sounds good but some I spent more on, depending on how far down the list of items was remaining, as only the costly items were left, some I would leave a cheque to go towards their dishwasher or whatever.

I have seen your front garden Ladymuck and would never in a million years recognise it from the description you have made. I seem to remember expressing the view when I first saw it, resembling a piece of "set-a-side" those pieces of land that farmers got grants for, for not cultivating them. Unintentional wildflower meadow is called 'guilding the lily' for a piece of ground neglected since the builders packed up and left the site in the nineties. Car and wheely bins are a positive advantage in that they obscure this scene of general dereliction. I think you might make a good living in real estate with such a Shakespearian turn of phrase, thus lightening the burden from the broad shoulders of your capable, though long suffering spouse.

I regularly have fox poo in my garden and what my daughters trod in when they were toddlers was dog sh!t. Nothing has changed in twenty years except some owners do work to the letter of the law and clean up after their animals, and with those good dog owners I have no gripe at all. There are far too many of the lazy, the macho, and the couldn't careless dog owners which suggests to me that it is far too easy for the self indulgent to own a dog! Animals are a full time gig, and it takes a mature adult attitude to cope with all that is necessary for dog maintenance and ownership.

Being in the front of the general public as a full time job is a personality changing experience. People coming at you all the time makes one rather short tempered, and the general public are very demanding and in some cases obnoxious and aggressive. Even in countries where they have a delightful countenance like Thailand, the taxi drivers are the most surly of all the Thai's I met, and mainly because they are constantly trying to earn a living by negotiating or rather arguing, several times per hour over the cost of the fare. DMC reception is no different, the people employed there are not going to retire early on what they earn, so are there for the long haul, and whenever I have been in there, even though something has gone wrong and an hour or so of my time has been wasted I have always maintained my civility. Nothing can change what's already happened, so I try to be a patient patient.

HAL9000 there seems to be no end to your vast pool of knowledge, I'm very impressed, and 'skinning your dogs' is a useful procedure prior to serving, they can be surprisingly tastey with cous-cous and olives, with dates* to follow:)) * pronounced datt ezz

It is very difficult to get English right as there are no predictable rules especially in spelling. Because of the various outside influences from the other bits of language it has absorbed the rules are broken or dysfunctional, or ahem not written in stone. The first european language in North America was French introduced by the trappers and fur traders. English was spoken eventually because the brits took locomotives and developed the interior which opened up the prairies.

Good for you jollybaby, you are an example to us all.

Mark set this up a couple or three years ago and I must say it is one subscription I don't mind paying for! I can have a good laugh, a moan at the politicians, find a plumber, buy some cheap dvd's or make new friends. I feel it is a real asset to the neighbourhood and worth every penny of my twenty five quid, and if you hadn't noticed I'm right careful with my dough.

Hal cutting the flummery!:))

There is a saying where I come from that "if you suffer from lots of indigestion during pregnancy", it means you will feel much better once the baby arrives!

I did exactly the same at that age and it was a sort of bravado of showing off to my mother how fast I could run, and then she taught me what the back of her hand felt like. She was distraught, and furious at the possibility of being seen as an unfit mother. I never did it again as I was fiercely against capital punishment when administered upon me.